Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name has been more bitterly cursed in Wall Street than "Roosevelt." But last week Wall Streeters were reminded that few names have been more venerated in The Street, either. The reminder: the 150th anniversary of Roosevelt & Son, investment management firm long dominated by the Oyster Bay, or non-New Dealing, Roosevelts...
Roosevelt & Son held a subdued celebration, in keeping with its high-stooled, high-collared conservatism. Top officers greeted clients and friends at a reception in the New York Yacht Club. Guests received copies of a newly published history of the firm entitled The Strenuous Life, the phrase made famous by the most famed of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts...
...Cousin Thee" (as Teddy Roosevelt was known in the family) had relatively little to do with the family business. But Roosevelt & Son had plenty of the strenuous life. Founded by James I. Roosevelt (who later took his son Cornelius into partnership), the firm started out as a hardware shop in Maiden Lane, barely opened its doors before Manhattan was swept by yellow fever. The shop not only survived the epidemic but within a few years was so prosperous that it began dis counting notes for other merchants. This led to other financial activities, and the hardware business was finally abandoned...
...nearer a final soluton today than it was two months or two years ago, the Palestine crisis still awaits firm and honest British action. The partition plan that was presented this fall has been dropped by Whitehall after both Jews and Arabs refused to accept either part or all of the proposal. Jewish circles envisioned little merit in any "autonomous" Jewish State in Palestine that would be unable to fix its own immigration quotas and thus determine its own destiny. The Arabs, (although it is doubtful that the extremely vocal land-owning Arab spokesmen represent real Arab sentiment), have often...
...cutbacks in tutorial. Whether this squares with the Administration's claim that tutorial is now on a "firmer footing" is left for future tutor-less undergraduates to evaluate. The second is that the individual departments have been more willing to accept this pressure than they have been to stand firm now for some concrete planning that would actually put strength into the tutorial system. And lastly, the issue of tutorial has been allowed to slip from view: a highly dangerous development if students are to grow aware of what they are losing...